Dunlop Island

Dunlop Island
Waters	McMurdo Sound , Ross Sea
Geographical location	77 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E
length	1.83 km
width	1.18 km
surface	1.3 km²

The Dunlop Island is a rocky, 1.83 km long and 1.18 km wide island off the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located east of Cape Dunlop and the mouth of the Wilson-Piedmont Glacier . They are about 400 m away from the mainland coast.

The island was first mapped by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . Shackleton named it after Henry Dunlop (1876–1931), a participant in the expedition.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Dunlop Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Dunlop Island on geographic.org (English)
• Dunlop Island. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 113. (English)